Just when you think our enemies-turned-snuggle-buddies are domesticated, Russia goes and revives long-range bomber patrols.
After joint military exercises with my in-laws.
Hmmm. Wonder what their plans are.
Archive for the ‘Common Sense’ Category
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Posted in Common Sense, News, Politics on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
A Charitable Confiscation (or why I loathe the USCCB)
Posted in Catholic, Common Sense, Fun With Heresy, Grrr! on August 15, 2007 | 8 Comments »
So I’m in Church this morning and Ivan is screeching like a girl so I take him out to the narthex (A.K.A. the place where I spend most of my liturgical life these days.) While I’m standing there I notice a card on the bulletin board, entitled, “What is important to Catholic citizens?”
As I begin [...]
Supreme Court Coloring Book
Posted in Common Sense, Politics on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s real, and it teaches about the highest court in the land.
I don’t know about you, but considering that it teaches how the SCOTUS is supposed to work, I can think of a few people who should really get their hands on it.
There are some others who might also need a copy for reference, just [...]
American Jurisprudence: Abortion? Legal. Raw Milk…?
Posted in Common Sense, The Rural Solution on August 8, 2007 | 9 Comments »
An interesting story came up today as one of the New York Times “most e-mailed” articles. It’s a piece about raw milk, and the lengths that people are going to to get it, despite government intervention to limit access to it or stop its consumption altogether.
In Virginia, the only way to get your hands on [...]
As Intellectual Property Law Develops…
Posted in Common Sense, Culture on August 1, 2007 | 11 Comments »
…things like this are going to backfire.
Without a special license, owners of bars, clubs and restaurants could be sued for playing any one of 8 million recorded songs, even from their own CDs.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) says that equates to performing copyrighted music without permission, and the group is going [...]
A Reader Chimes In
Posted in Catholic, Common Sense, Culture on July 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
On Harry Potter:
We have had reservations with these series because we know the dangers and evils behind witchcraft. It isn’t funny. It isn’t cute.
It surely isn’t funny when 8 year olds “pretend” to be witches especially, when you say on the side, “But you do know that witchcraft is a serious sin” (these are Catholic [...]
Battling Atheists
Posted in Common Sense, Culture of Death, Rebuttals on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have a post in my blog drafts entitled, “Richard Dawkins is On My List.” I see it every day, and every day I think, “I don’t have the time or the energy to sit down and try to come up with a systematic refutation of anything this butthead thinks.”
Atheists are, quite frankly, exhausting. But [...]
Getting Rid of Television
Posted in Common Sense, Education, Family, Funny on June 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Today is the day.
I’ve toyed with the idea for years, but I’ve also resisted it. For a couple years running, I decided we needed to give up TV for Lent. Those were good Lents. That was the beginning of the end of TV in our home.
We’ve had certain addictions, to be sure. Lost is foremost. Then [...]
Crunchy Conservatism
Posted in Common Sense, Culture, Distributism, Restoration, The Rural Solution on June 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Speaking of Rod Dreher, I picked up his Crunchy Cons from the library yesterday. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while. Rod and I exchanged a couple of e-mails about it before it was published, so despite the fact that it was prior to my sudden agrarian epiphany I had some interest going [...]
They’re Really Hoping
Posted in Common Sense, Liturgy, Motu Mania, News, Tradition on May 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Latin Mass might not boost congregations:
For decades, the pre-Vatican II Tridentine Mass could only be celebrated by a priest with permission from his bishop.
But a Vatican official, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, confirmed earlier this month that Pope Benedict XVI would soon relax the restrictions on celebrating the Tridentine Mass because of a “new and renewed [...]
